As Syria undergoes a precarious government transition under interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa following the ouster of Bashar al-Assad, now is a critical moment to hold members of the former regime ...

As rebels closed in on Damascus, Bashar ... International Islamic Bank (SIIB), according to the same sources. The person inside Assad's circle said the account belongs to Damascus-based Al-Burj ...

Ongoing attacks have been a major letdown for Syrians who hoped that Assad's sudden fall would spell an end to violence ...

The Muslim minority group was seen as a privileged minority under the rule of the Alawite Assad family, but since Bashar Assad ... said Diana Semaan, Amnesty International’s Syria Researcher ...

The rebel fighters have also spoken of an amnesty for all military ... In November 2023, a French court issued international arrest warrants for Bashar al-Assad, his brother and two officials ...

More than 100 chemical weapons sites are suspected to remain in Syria, left behind after the fall of the longtime President, Bashar al-Assad, according to the leading international organisation that ...

President Ahmed al-Sharaa gives fact-finding committee a three-month extension to file report into Alawite killings.

The use of sarin, a chemical weapon banned under international law ... or legal action was taken against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad at the time. Assad has since denied responsibility ...

Syria’s ousted dictator, Bashar al-Assad, unleashed a Sarin gas strike ... which is prohibited under international conventions, it would be crossing a “red line.” But when the attacks ...

F or miles around, as far as the eye can see, the eastern suburbs of Damascus are a sea of undulating rubble and skeletal ...

Amnesty called on the Syrian government in a report on Thursday to ensure accountability for the massacres targeting the Alawite minority, saying they may constitute war crimes. The Syrian Observatory ...

Hundreds of Alawite civilians were killed in apparent retribution after fighting broke out between government forces and armed groups loyal to former President Bashar al-Assad, who belongs to the ...